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Over a span of several minutes, he then painted Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein in negative terms for failing to remember much about the events in question. “The man remembers nothing,” Naftalis said. “That’s what his testimony is worth.”

Naftalis was at his most moving in the final minutes of his summation. In a barely audible voice, he relayed a story of how the American government always wins a criminal case, even when a jury finds a defendant innocent. Because even in those cases, he went on, looking at the jurors without pacing back and forth as he had done for most of his closing argument, when an American is defended against false charges, “the United States always wins.”

The energetic tone of the rebuttal by Assistant U.S. Attorney Reed Brodsky sharply contrasted with the defense’s last words. Brodsky addressed some of Naftalis’s claims but he was at his most effective in pointing out the impossibility of Gupta’s situation. “To believe the arguments of the defense team, you’d have to believe that Mr. Gupta is one of the unluckiest men in the world,” Brodsky said, referring to the sizeable evidence against the defendant.

Over the next few minutes, he repeated the words – “Isn’t it unlucky” – as he reviewed the major facts aligned against the defendant. "He's not the victim of unlucky coincidences."